Early life

Szarabajka was born in Oak Park, Illinois, the son of Anne, a school teacher, and Edward Szarabajka, a savings and loan officer.

He attended Campion Jesuit High School in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, John Hersey High School in Arlington Heights, Illinois, and the University of Chicago, as well as Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. He studied acting further at the Organic Theater in Chicago from 1972 to 1978. During this time, he co-wrote "Bleacher Bums" along with, among others, Joe Mantegna and Stuart Gordon. Szarabajka's surname means "gray fable" in Polish. In 1982, he had a supporting role in the Costa-Gavras film Missing.

Career

His acting resume is extensive, appearing in numerous television programs including The Equalizer, Profit, The X-Files, Becker, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, Charmed, Roswell, 24, Max Steel, The Inside, and Law & Order. In 1994 he portrayed Matthew Stoner in Babylon 5 episode "Soul Mates". He is known for his role as Mickey Kostmayer in the 1980s show The Equalizer, as well as for his recurring role as vampire hunter Daniel Holtz in the cult series Angel, the spin-off from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He played the lead role in Stephen King's Golden Years.

Szarabajka has also contributed his voice to several audio books, notably Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates by Tom Robbins, for which he won the 2001 Audie Award for Best Fiction, unabridged; Fear Nothing and Seize the Night by Dean Koontz; several roles in a Grammy nominated audio dramatization of The Maltese Falcon, Rising Sun by Michael Crichton; Nelson Algren's Walk on the Wild Side; and The Mark of Zorro opposite Val Kilmer. Szarabajka is also the voice of Russman in Call of Duty Black ops 2. Additionally, he provided the voice for antagonist Dmitri Yuriev in the Xenosaga series and for The Master of Whispers in the game Guild Wars: Nightfall and for Emile Dufraisne in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent; in addition he played the role of Detective Gerard Stephens in the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight and voiced Dr. Terrence Kyne for the animated sci-fi horror movie Dead Space: Downfall based on the Dead Space video game. He also voiced a minor character in Condemned 2: Bloodshot named Inferi. He also is the Archangel Azrael in Darksiders: Wrath of War and played a very small role in Dragon Age: Origins as a nameless dwarf collecting nugs, a voiceset for male dwarf characters, and several other minor characters. He plays the Reaper Harbinger, the main villain of the video game Mass Effect 2, as well as a few minor characters. In 2008, he voiced Venom in Spider-Man: Web of Shadows. In 2010, he voiced the Autobot Ironhide in Transformers: War for Cybertron as well as its 2012 sequel Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and Mr. Freeze in Young Justice. He also provides the voice for Gilgamesh in the video game, Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy. He also provided the voice for Joshua Graham in Honest Hearts, downloadable content for Fallout: New Vegas.

His most recent roles include the narrator Detective Herschel Biggs in the video game LA Noire, the Chaos Advisor and Captain Apollo Diomedes in Relic Entertainment's Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising, Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Retribution, Laserbeak in Transformers: Dark of the Moon, Bastion in X-Men Destiny, several voices in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Ronan the Accuser in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, the Living Laser in Ultimate Spider-Man, Azrael The Narrator in Darksiders, the Crowfather in Darksiders II, the Witch-king of Angmar in Guardians of Middle-earth, Russman in Call of Duty: Black Ops II, the Ur-Didact in Halo 4, General Spencer Mahad in Dead Space 3, and Cornelius Slate in BioShock Infinite.

Filmography

Film

List of film performances

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
000000001980-01-01-00001980	Simon	Josh
000000001982-02-12-00001982	Missing	David Holloway
000000001984-12-21-00001984	Protocol	Crowe
000000001985-08-23-00001985	Warning Sign	Tippett
000000001985-09-25-00001985	Marie	Kevin McCormack
000000001987-12-04-00001987	Walker	Timothy Crocker
000000001988-02-22-00001988	The Misfit Brigade	Old Man
000000001989-11-10-00001989	Staying Together	Kevin Burley
000000001992-02-27-00001992	Under Cover of Darkness	Clayton Dooley
000000001993-11-24-00001993	A Perfect World	Terry Pugh
000000001994-08-19-00001994	Andre	Billy Baker
000000001998-05-01-00001998	Dancer, Texas Pop. 81	Squirrel's Father
000000002002-03-01-00002002	We Were Soldiers	Diplomatic Spook
000000002002-12-20-00002002	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Poacher	Voice role
000000002008-07-18-00002008	The Dark Knight	Stephens
000000002008-10-28-00002008	Dead Space: Downfall	Dr. Kyne (voice)	Voice role
000000002011-06-29-00002011	Transformers: Dark of the Moon	Laserbeak
000000002012-10-12-00002012	Argo	Adam Engell
000000002013-12-27-00002013	The Insomniac	Ted Lemont
000000002015-05-12-00002015	Batman Unlimited: Animal Instincts	Silverback	Voice role

Television

List of television performances

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
000000001985-09-25-00001985-89	The Equalizer	Mickey Kostmayer
000000001991-07-16-00001991	Golden Years	Harlan Williams
000000001992-12-19-00001992-97	Law & Order	Neil Gorton, Harry Sibelius
000000001993-08-21-00001993	The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles	Colonel Waters	Episode: "Transylvania, January 1918"
000000001994-01-01-00001994	3×3 Eyes	Professor Fujii, Ryouko	Voice role English version
000000001994-10-14-00001994	Under Suspicion	Wayne McCabe	Episode: "Child Molester: Part 2"
000000001994-12-14-00001994	Babylon 5	Matthew Stoner	Episode: "Soul Mates"
000000001995-01-14-00001995-96	Aaahh!!! Real Monsters	Dean, Racquet Player #1, Skritch, Corpus	Voice role
000000001996-02-12-00001996	Kung Fu: The Legend Continues	Christianson	Episode: "Circle of Light"
000000001996-04-08-00001996-97	Profit	Charles Henry "Chaz" Gracen
000000001996-10-15-00001996	The Burning Zone	Gordon Kinnock	Episode: "Lethal Injection"
000000001996-10-26-00001996	Walker, Texas Ranger	Hendricks	Episode: "Redemption"
000000001996-11-09-00001996	Early Edition	Paul	Episode: "After Midnight"
000000001997-03-03-00001997	Spy Game	Shank, The President
000000001998-07-18-00001998	Timecop	Cromwell	Episode: "The Future, Jack, the Future"
000000001998-09-01-00001998-99	The Wild Thornberrys	Kip, additional voices	Voice role
000000001998-09-27-00001998	The Angry Beavers	Spootimus, Maximus	Voice role Episode: "Friends, Romans, Beavers!/Big Round Sticky Fish Thingy"
000000001998-10-01-00001998	Vengeance Unlimited	Dr. Alan Walker	Episode: "Victim of Circumstance"
000000001999-01-20-00001999	Honey, I Shrunk the Kids: The TV Show	Powell Weltmeister	Episode: "Honey, I'm King of the Rocket Guys"
000000001999-02-26-00001999	Diagnosis: Murder	Flynn	Episode: "Never Say Die"
000000001999-05-08-00001999	Godzilla: The Series	Philippe Roaché	Voice role Episode: "An Early Frost"
000000001999-08-02-00001999	Thanks	Reverend Goodacre
000000002000-02-17-00002000	Roughnecks: Starship Troopers Chronicles	Lt. Rockford	Voice role Episode: "D-Day"
000000002000-02-20-00002000	Pacific Blue	Malcolm Cross	Episode: "A Thousand Words"
000000002000-02-21-00002000	Becker	Wayne	Episode: "The Roast That Ruined Thems"
000000002000-03-14-00002000	Party of Five	Oliver	Episode: "Blast from the Past"
000000002000-10-15-00002000	Touched by an Angel	Barkley Stubbs	Episode: "The Face on the Bar Room Floor"
000000002000-10-25-00002000	Star Trek: Voyager	Teero	Episode: "Repression"
000000002000-12-17-00002000	The X-Files	Anthony Tipet	Episode: "Via Negativa"
000000002001-01-22-00002001	Roswell	Dan Lubetkin
000000002001-01-29-00002001	The Division	Brett Harper	Episode: "Absolution"
000000002001-03-03-00002001	Kate Brasher	Bryce Taylor	Episode: "Simon"
000000002001-05-05-00002001-02	The Zeta Project	Krick	Voice role
000000002001-09-21-00002001-02	Angel	Daniel Holtz
000000002001-09-22-00002001	Heavy Gear: The Animated Series	Serge Garpenlov	Voice role
000000002001-11-11-00002001	Max Steel	Luke DeMarco, Psycho	Voice role
000000002001-12-18-00002001	Batman Beyond	Bracelet Kobra	Voice role Episode: "Unmasked"
000000002002-03-20-00002002	Star Trek: Enterprise	Damrus	Episode: "Rogue Planet"
000000002002-10-21-00002002	She Spies	Liev Schrieber	Episode: "Fondles"
000000002002-11-07-00002002	ER	Mr. DeLuca	Episode: "One Can Only Hope"
000000002002-12-02-00002002	Crossing Jordan	Peter Nash	Episode: "Don't Look Back"
000000002003-03-29-00002003	The Mummy: The Animated Series	Fodden King	Voice role Episode: "The Cold"
000000002003-08-30-00002003	Teen Titans	Trigon	Voice role Episode: "Nevermore"
000000002003-11-02-00002003	Charmed	Zahn	Episode: "Soul Survivor"
000000002004-12-11-00002004	Megas XLR	Ator	Voice role Episode: "Ice Ice Megas"
000000002005-02-06-00002005	Unscripted	Limo Driver	Episode #1.7
000000002005-02-25-00002005	Numbers	Cricket/Frank Milton	Episode: "Sabotage"
000000002005-03-25-00002005	Avatar: The Last Airbender	Additional voices	Voice role Episode: "Imprisoned"
000000002005-04-25-00002005	24	Robert Morrison
000000002005-01-01-00002005	A.T.O.M.	Dragon
000000002005-07-08-00002005	Into the West	Gov. L. Stanford	Episode: "Hell on Wheels"
000000002006-04-07-00002006	The Inside	Arlen Dallas	Episode: "Gem"
000000002008-10-30-00002008	Eleventh Hour	Agent Whittier	Episode: "Savant"
000000002008-11-10-00002008	Prison Break	David Baker	Episode: "The Legend"
000000002008-11-30-00002008-10	Cold Case	Patrick Doherty	Episode: "Street Money"
000000002009-01-29-00002009	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Randy	Episode: "Disarmed and Dangerous"
000000002010-10-23-00002010-11	Sons of Anarchy	Viktor Putlova
000000002010-10-27-00002010	Terriers	DEA Agent Samuel Weisdorf	Episode: "Agua Caliente"
000000002010-11-26-00002010-11	Young Justice	Mr. Freeze
000000002011-01-07-00002011	G.I. Joe: Renegades	Warden, Con #1, P.A. Voice
000000002012-04-22-00002012	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes	Ronan the Accuser	Voice role Episode: "Welcome to the Kree Empire"
000000002012-04-22-00002012	Ultimate Spider-Man	Living Laser, Computer	Episode: "Flight of the Iron Spider"
000000002012-11-12-00002012	Elementary	Wade Crewes	Episode: "One Way to Get Off"
000000002013-02-26-00002013	Criminal Minds	Detective Marty Friedman	Episode: "All That Remains"
000000002014-11-17-00002014	Castle	James Grady	Episode: "Once Upon a Time in the West"
000000002014-09-26-00002014-15	Star Wars Rebels	Cikatro Vizago, Transport Captain, Imperial Officer #1, Old Man	Voice role
000000002016-05-11-00002016	Supernatural	Donatello Redfield	Episode: "All in the Family"

Video games

List of video game performances

Year	Title	Role	Notes	Source
000000001996-10-31-00001996	Soviet Strike	President Yeltsin
000000001998-10-30-00001998	Grim Fandango	Bowlsley
000000002000-03-21-00002000	Star Wars: Force Commander	Dewback Trooper, Infiltrator, TIE Fighter Pilot
000000002000-11-08-00002000	Escape from Monkey Island	Reverend Rasputin
000000002001-10-10-00002001	Command & Conquer: Yuri's Revenge	Additional voices
000000002002-02-17-00002002	Pirates: The Legend of Black Kat	Hawke
000000002002-09-24-00002002	Earth and Beyond	Professor Nostradamaus Smythe
000000002003-05-14-00002003	Enter the Matrix	Additional voices
000000002003-10-21-00002003	Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge	Kahn
000000002003-10-28-00002003	Gladius	Additional voices
000000002003-11-17-00002003	James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing	Arkady Yayakov
000000002004-06-28-00002004	Spider-Man 2: The Game	Wolverine	Game Boy Edition
000000002004-07-13-00002004	Tales of Symphonia	Efreet
000000002004-10-26-00002004	The Bard's Tale	Additional voices
000000002004-11-18-00002004	Viewtiful Joe 2	Jet Black, Emperor of Gedow the Blackon
000000002005-02-15-00002005	Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse	Boss, Dmitri Yuriev, Captain Vanderkam
000000002005-05-24-00002005	Madagascar	Reggie the Rhino, Cop, Big Louie
000000002005-08-16-00002005	Darkwatch: Curse of the West	Additional voices
000000002005-09-06-00002005	Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Lockdown	Additional voices
000000002005-09-13-00002005	EverQuest II: Desert of Flames	Additional voices
000000002005-09-21-00002005	Ultimate Spider-Man: The Game	Wolverine
000000002005-11-08-00002005	Viewtiful Joe: Red Hot Rumble	Jet Black
000000002006-03-21-00002006	Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Essentials	Emile Dufraisne
000000002006-04-26-00002006	Guild Wars	Master of Whispers
000000002006-08-29-00002006	Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra	Dmitri Yuriev, Helmerr, Erde Kaiser Sigma
000000002006-09-12-00002006	Company of Heroes	Additional voices
000000002006-10-17-00002006	Splinter Cell: Double Agent	Emile Dufraisne
000000002006-11-07-00002006	The Sopranos: Road to Respect	Additional voices
000000002006-11-20-00002006	Gothic 3	Xardas
000000002007-03-28-00002007	Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars	Additional voices
000000002007-06-26-00002007	Transformers: The Game	Decepticons
000000002007-11-20-00002007	Mass Effect	Lilihierax
000000002007-01-01-00002007	Titan Quest: Immortal Throne	Additional voices
000000002008-03-11-00002008	Condemned 2: Bloodshot	Inferi, Patron, Speedballer Thugs
000000002008-10-13-00002008	Dead Space	Dr. Terrence Kyne
000000002008-10-31-00002008	Spider-Man: Web of Shadows	Eddie Brock/Venom
000000002009-06-02-00002009	Red Faction Guerrilla	Additional voices
000000002009-11-03-00002009	Dragon Age: Origins	Nug Wrangler Boermor, Shaper Assistant Milldrate, Cristof<, Smart Dwarf Male, Jertrin, Herbalist Widron, Shady Corebit, Orphanage Demon, Fixer Gredin, Hospice Supervisor, Howe Estate Guard, Dwarven Soldier, Dust Town Thug Leader, Shady Patron, Harrowmont Fanatic
000000002009-03-16-00002009	Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight	Additional voices
000000002010-01-05-00002010	Darksiders	Azrael
000000002010-01-26-00002010	Mass Effect 2	Harbinger, Delan, Elias Kelham
000000002010-02-09-00002010	BioShock 2	Reed Wahl
000000002010-03-11-00002010	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising	Captain Apollo Diomedes, Wraithguard
000000002010-06-22-00002010	Transformers: War for Cybertron	Ironhide
000000002010-08-31-00002010	Minerva's Den	Reed Wahl
000000002010-09-07-00002010	Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions	Additional voices
000000002010-09-28-00002010	Quantum Theory	Franz, Xex
000000002010-10-19-00002010	Fallout: New Vegas	Joshua Graham	Honest Hearts DLC
000000002010-11-09-00002010	Call of Duty: Black Ops	Unknown U.S. Marines	Voice can be heard in level called "SOG"; "They must have a fucking division hid out there"
000000002011-01-15-00002011	Dead Space 2	Additional voices
000000002011-01-15-00002011	L.A. Noire	Herschel Biggs
000000002011-03-08-00002011	Dragon Age II	Bartrand Tethras, Maraas
000000002011-03-11-00002011	Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising	Captain Apollo Diomedes
000000002011-03-22-00002011	Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy	Gilgamesh
000000002011-09-27-00002011	X-Men: Destiny	Bastion
000000002011-11-01-00002011	The Lord of the Rings: War in the North	Urgost
000000002011-11-11-00002011	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim	Erandur, Dark Elves
000000002011-12-20-00002011	Star Wars: The Old Republic	Additional voices
000000002012-02-21-00002012	Asura's Wrath	Kalrow
000000002012-03-06-00002012	Mass Effect 3	Additional voices
000000002012-06-26-00002012	The Amazing Spider-Man	Additional voices
000000002012-08-14-00002012	Darksiders II	The Crowfather, The Scribe, Wicked K, Nephilim Whisper
000000002012-08-21-00002012	Transformers: Fall of Cybertron	Ironhide
000000002012-10-16-00002012	Doom 3 BFG Edition	Alpha Team: Sgt Roycewick
000000002012-10-21-00002012	Skylanders: Giants	Flameslinger
000000002012-11-06-00002012	Halo 4	Didact/Doctor Alexander
000000002012-11-12-00002012	Call of Duty: Black Ops II	Russman
000000002013-02-05-00002013	Dead Space 3	Spencer Mahad
000000002013-03-26-00002013	BioShock Infinite	Cornelius Slate
000000002013-08-20-00002013	Saints Row IV	Clawz
000000002013-08-28-00002013	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows	The Kraang
000000002013-04-14-00002013	Skylanders: Swap Force	Flameslinger
000000002014-10-13-00002014	The Elder Scrolls Online	Hircine, Abbot Durak, Abzag the Monster, additional voices
000000002014-06-03-00002014	WildStar	Colonel Audax, Maelstrom, Noximind
000000002014-06-24-00002014	Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark	Ironhide, Autobot Titan, Decepticon Sniper
000000002014-10-05-00002014	Skylanders: Trap Team	Flameslinger
000000002014-11-25-00002014	Tales from the Borderlands	Rudiger
000000002015-03-25-00002015	Final Fantasy Type-0 HD	Gilgamesh
000000002015-06-23-00002015	Batman: Arkham Knight	Firefighter Daniell, Firefighter Scott, The Order
000000002015-09-01-00002015	Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain	Soldiers/Extras
000000002015-09-25-00002015	Skylanders: SuperChargers	Flameslinger
000000002015-11-10-00002015	Fallout 4	Male Ghoul, Vault-Tec Scientist

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